Impact Stories

Stories that show how privately funded research, programs and initiatives are making a difference.

Carolina Stories

Jeremy Wang, assistant professor of genetics in the UNC School of Medicine, in front of lab equipment

7 min read

The power of partnership

Two people stand in outdoor hallway of a building.

2 min read

A convergent code

Patients walk into the University of Zambia School of Medicine Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.

8 min read

A new device for saving lives

A screenshot of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Humanitarian Health fellows and volunteers.

4 min read

Students on the Frontlines of Humanitarian Health

Joey Lancellotti pitching

1 min read

Songs of inspiration

Joe Brown poses in the foreground of a lab.

4 min read

A Human Right

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7 min read

Where the Water Will Rise

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6 min read

What is ‘safe’ sanitation?

Donald Fejfar in a lab wearing a lab coat.

1 min read

Population-based work

Two women in doula training session.

1 min read

Training Black doulas to serve Black women

Researcher putting on a hazmat suit.

5 min read

READDI, not Reactive

1 min read

Environmental factors and human health